CALCAREA CARBONICA mit generierter deutscher Übersetzung Pulfords Remarks: Calc. calls to mind fair, fat, flabby, sluggish individuals and children; or pale, anemic, waxy even though plump, with pale ears, lips and fingers pale and yellowish; anemic and chlorotic girls; chilly patients; cases esp. caused by working in water in which it follows Rhus-t. well; patients who are sensitive to cold air and cold weather, esp. if damp; his pains are agg. change of weather, esp. to damp; he is tired and agg. exertion of every kind; chilly, great relaxation; his thoughts keep him awake night; cold sweaty hands and feet; face covered with cold sweat; children have a great longing for eggs; palpitation from every excitement; dyspnea from exertion; expectoration is sweetish and may be white or yellow and thick; ulcers on lungs; chest is very sensitive to percussion or pressure, sharp pains shoot through it to back, it is also agg. by inspiration; infants who sweat about the head and wet the pillow during sleep and whose feet are cold and damp. Has a special affinity for and is the leading remedy for pneumonia of the right upper lobe, and is adapted to the pleuro type. Is the ONLY known remedy for: Delusion that people think her insane; inclined to grow fat (children); mind oversensitive when hearing of cruelties; desires boiled eggs; constriction and oppression of chest amel. drawing shoulders back; chill from working in clay. Is THE leading remedy for: Delusions on closing eyes, or if frightful; exaltation of fancies at night; agg. when narrating her symptoms; photophobia evening agg.; sneezing without coryza; dry cough before midnight; pneumonia right upper lobe; chill beginning in scrobiculus cordis; chill from working in water; fever alternating with chill afternoon; weary of life during sweat. Calc.: THERAPEUTIC HINTS - The cold, sweaty feet and hands. Hoyne hn1 Cough excited by eating, inspiration or noise. Constipation or diarrhea. Nash nh6 I cannot do better here for want of space than again to refer you to my "Leaders in Hom. Therapeutics", 3rd Ed., page 60, to get the picture. The case continues to cough and expectorate, agg. in the morning; the external chest becomes sensitive to touch and sore. Sensation in feet and legs as if she had on cold, damp stockings; night sweats, general, and especially local sweats, to which the patient may have been subject all her life. She was sweaty headed as a child. Now Calc. may save this case from running on to consumption if it is given properly. Tyler tl2 Rickety children; big head and big abdomen. Das danx Causes: ... Handling cold things. Defective assimilation imperfect ossification; washing, coition, loss of fluids. Masturbation, wet poultices, sexual excesses, stretching the affected part. From washing and water; from getting wet. Suppressed perspiration; stone cutters. Cough: Cough worse in damp cold air, raw damp winds, wet weather, washing or working in water, talking, ... mental excitement; cough better by lying on painful side. Pain and rawness in chest with cough; vomiting of sweetish matter with cough; rattling of mucus with cough; with cough pressure in chest and stomach; tearing pain in inguinal hernia; cough caused by a sensation of plug which moves up and down in throat; ... Respiration: Shortness of breath on ascending; loud breathing through the nose; ... breathing stops when stooping; dyspnea with tightness of chest, with stitches in chest; ... Chest: ... stitches in chest and sides of the chest when moving; on deep inspiration, leaning against the painful side; ... stitches in chest when lying on the affected side; darting from the left into the right lung; ... fleeting chest pains. [Cutting pains in last ribs on inspiration. modx] Fever: ... Worse at 14h. ... history of suppressed eruptions. Accompaniments: Peevishness; easily frightened or offended. Vertigo on ascending; heat in vertex. Icy coldness of head; obstinate, self-willed children. Scratches head on waking; lachrymation in open air; ... Dryness of nose; pale bloatedness of face, Dryness of tongue at night and when awaking; ... Aversion to boiled things, ... Swelling over pit of stomach like a saucer turned bottom up. Constipation, stool at first hard, then pasty; then liquid (Lyc.) Sour diarrhoea; white stool; fetid urine; ... Cold knees (Carb-v.) Sweat of hands and pulse. Sensation of dryness of inner parts. Sensation of coldness of inner parts. ... Cramps in legs at 3h; Worms, ... Aggravation: ... On washing; on stooping. From suppressed catarrh; after coition; ... Mental exertion; fasting; ascending; ... talking; ... during full moon. Amelioration: Dry weather; lying on painful side. Loosening garments; while lying on back; rubbing. Wiping or soothing with the hands; from being touched. Additional information possibly useful for cases of Atypical Pneumonia Nash nh6 The symptoms and indications leading to the choice of this remedy in incipient consumption, or first stage of the established disease, will be found as much, or in many cases even more, in the constitution and early history of the patient than in the local manifestations. If the history of the case is that of a sweaty headed child, with tardy closing of the fontanels, too much fat and too tardy or irregular bone developments, and delayed dentition; sweaty head which soaks the pillow, and the leucophlegmatic constitution is still found in youth and adult age. If the boys are subject to epistaxis, the girls menstruate too early, and then too profusely until the climacteric; they are as cold and susceptible to cold, with feet and legs as cold as Sulph. is hot and burning, we will have an entirely different case from that of Sulph. to begin on. We might go on and give the whole list of characteristic symptoms of this remedy of wide range and deep action, but that would be Materia Medica, where it can all be found. But we will notice here the local symptoms that lead to indicate this drug. Painless hoarseness, agg. mornings, sensation of dust or feather down in larynx, trachea, lungs, causing tickling irritation to cough. The breath becomes short, especially on going up stairs or an eminence (Ars.). Later on mucus rattles in the chest. The cough is at first dry, especially at night; and finally becomes loose, especially in the morning, when there may be profuse salty sputum. During the cough there may be pain and rawness (Caust.) in the chest. There is sore pain in the chest as if beaten (Arn.), the entire chest is painfully sensitive to touch, (even extremely) and on inspiration, Calc. acts strongly on the middle right lung (, left lung kr1), but is not by any means confined there. The expectoration differs in the different stages of the disease, in the first stage, white, gray, yellow, frothy or gluey; later becomes thicker and heavier, yellow fetid; or gray-yellow of putrid odor. It becomes heavy and falls to the bottom, when spat into water with a 'trail of tough mucus behind like a falling star". - Fellger. "In young consumptives of a Calc. diathesis where abscesses form, the pus having a fetid or putrid odor, after the pus is discharged, Calc. in a high potency may effect a complete cure". (Guernsey). Kent k2 The chest troubles furnishes one of our best fields for Calc. We have spitting of blood; prolonged cough; copious expectoration of thick yellow mucus or even pus; ulceration or abscess. Tickling cough. We have, in threatening chest trouble, the beginning emaciation, the pallor, the sensitiveness to cold, changes, and to the cold air, and to wet weather and to winds. He takes colds and they all settle in the chest; gradual emaciation in the limbs; always so tired. It corresponds to just such constitutional weakness as preceeds or is present in the first stagees of phthisis. It stops the patient taking cold, which is the very beginning of it. ... it will encyst tubercular deposits. It turns it from caseous into a calcareous form, and cysts have been found in the chest long afterwards. Farrington fr1 Expectoration is purulent, yellowish-green, and bloody. The patient has great repugnance to animal food, as meat, which passes undigested. Emaciation progresses, sweat increases, and the menses, if it is a female, become checked. Sulph., Calc., Lyc. are similar to Sil. in the scrophulous diseases of children. The distinction between Calc. and Sil. is as follows: The Calc. head sweat is confined to the scalp and is sour rather than offensive. The feet also are damp from sweat, but the sweat does not as Sil. make the feet sore or raw. Calc. lacks the sensitiveness to touch of Sil. Compare with: [Sil., Sulph. in scrophulous diathesis fr1] Follows often: Dulc. k2, Rhus-t. pfa3 Followed by: Lyc. danx, Nit-ac. danx, Puls. danx, Phos. danx, Sulph. danx, Sil. danx Calc I have found Calc very useful in pneumonia, pleuro-pneumonia, in tuberculous subjects. Calc is very well indicated in mucus without cough. I find CALC. useful in inflammation more on left side. Calc is imortant reemdy for lungs abscess particularly in left in children. Calc has Inner chest oppression with stoppage of nose and anxiety. IMPORTANT SYMPTOM THAT HELPS US IN PRESCRIBING CALC is cutting pains in in last ribs on inspiration.